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Unclassified | Go to top

• My computing notes
• The Register IT news.

• Frank Duff - A Coder in Courierland An article by an ex coder who gave up their job to become a cycle courier (this article is also at kuro5hin, where it's followed by discussion). I was instantly fascinated by this article because I'm both a coder and interested in cycling. I personally wouldn't ditch my job to become a courier, but it's romantic idea.
• Xen virtual machine monitor An open source virtual machine montior. Consider using this rather than the more expensive VMWare if you're using open source OSs like Linux.
• Mixed Reality Lab Mixed reality research. Check out the numerous research videos.
• Total Immersion Technology Very impressive augmented reality demo. I believe it's a product called D'Fusion by a company called Total Immersion.
• LiveVault: The Institute for Backup Trauma
• gmailtips.com Tips and Tricks for Google's new Gmail web-based email service. See Gmail Tips - The Complete Collection for all tips.
• Bootdisk.com Boot disks, drivers, utilities.
• Thinking Machine 4 A chess game, where the program's evolving thought process visible on the board before you.
• AnandTech Hardware analysis and news.
• Tom's Hardware Guide Reviews and guides on hardware.
• The Subversion Project: Buiding a Better CVS Article about how subversion is structured.
• OSTG | Open Source Technology Group Network of technology sites, with a focus on Linux and the Open Source community. Formerly the Open Source Development Network (OSDN).
• Tom's x86 FAQ Timeline of (mainly Intel and AMD) processor releases, from the 1993 to 2004.
• A Brief History of Computing - Summary Timeline From 500 B.C. (!) to 2003.
• Notebook Buying Guide with a useful comparison chart for mobile processors.
• GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery "a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces."
• nBot Balancing Robot
• ATAC: Abusable Technologies Awareness Center Aims to provide current and accurate information about technology that oversteps its bounds.
• Mooter Search Engine An engine that returns your results in categorised clusters.
• Jenny18 - A Cybersex Bot Implemented in Eliza Transcripts of Eliza on an IRC using a dumb blonde script. It's funny that so many people were tricked by it.
• 12 sided calendar Postscript to print a calendar that folds into a dodecahedron.
• Nintendogs Cool application for the new Nintendo DS.
• Computer Science learning material from MERLOT online learning material.
• Jesse's Bookmarklets Site A large collection of bookmarklets, well tabulated with browser compatibility.
• ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses Gadgets, computing and other geeky stuff.
• Defcon Forums For hackers.
• The Microsoft Boycott Campaign
• ExtremeTech Technology e-zine with a focus on hands-on computing.
• Quotes about Operating Systems
• Cruft Scale
• Geeknews Apparently updated every 10 mins.
• Modular robotics at PARC
• Jargon - The New Hacker's Dictionary
• Gzz An implementation of Zzstructure I believe. Interesting idea for representing the structure of information.
• Free OS Resource center for free operating systems. See the downloads.
• Watching Microsoft Like A Hawk "Microsoft News & Commentary - No Bias - No Agenda".
• Gallery of Computation Beautiful visualisations.
• Digital Techniques For deep-sky astrophotography.
• Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter Linux sucks less.
• Computer Supidities Collection of stupid comments made largely by users to support staff.
• Exploiting Peer-to-Peer Networking: I have lost all faith in humanity. Tracking downloads of resources with questionable titles.
• Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau Interactive art.
• Captcha Tests that can be used to automatically tell apart a human and computer (basically, images containing text that a human can recognise but a computer has great difficulty with).
• anemone A live applet for visualising the traffic as people move across the ACG website.
• Cellular Automata Very interesting and informing article. One of many notebooks by Cosma.
• Hacker's Lab A site which sets you various hacking problems to (legally) try on their dedicated server.
• The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. Programs in Windows and Linux that have a similar functionality.
• Travelling Salesman Problem Graphical representation (Java applet) of the classic problem.
• Acronym Server Good for finding computer related acronyms. Otherwise go to Acronym Finder as it's far more comprehensive.
• Mini ITX Cool computer mods.
• Progenic List of hacking resources.
• Weird Error Messages A techy wiki page giving weird error messages and often their explanations too.
• Gamasutra Exchange Objects for games. I like the page because it gives an indication of the reality that computer graphics can currently achieve (in a commercial product).
• KASY0 A powerful supercomputer built using basic desktop PCs. Holds the world record for price/performance.
• Obsolete Computer Museum Pics and details about a number of now obsolete computers.
• Heavy Metal Work log of the guy (I assume) who built Heavy Metal, a computer mod that looks vaguely like a truck.
• Alex Fauland's easy to use tools and utilities Useful file splitter, find and replace, merge and renaming utilities, amongst others. All freeware but I've not tried any yet. This link is here for future reference.
• BookmarkBridge Open Source multi-platform utility for synchronising bookmarks across different browsers (IE, NS, Mozilla, etc).
• OpenDeveloper.org Dedicated to Open Source website development. Have a page on how to find and replace a string in multiple files using perl.
• Unicode Code Charts In PDF format.
• smutcraft This guy has generated stats on the OSs and web servers used by porn sites. Quite justified as far as I'm concerned given that porn is the reason most people use the WWW anyway.
• Insecure.Org A hacker's site. Lots of info on the nmap security scanner and a list of the top 75 security tools.
• SiteSeer computer science directory Scientific literature digital library. There is also a search page.
• Mozilla Possibly the best internet suite in the world. Use Mozilla Firefox if you just want a fast browser. Also check out Mozilla's Command Line Options.
• Firefox FAQ Good FAQs. Useful instructions for installing the Java and Flash plugins.
• 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.
• Mozilla Update Extensions, themes, plugins for Mozilla products. Go here first to find extensions for Firefox, then go to the Extension Room.
• Extension Room Extensions for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
• macboy.com As well as general Apple Mac. support, this site has parodies of Mac. commercials and other funny animations.
• Phrack Online hackers magazine.
• Crazy PC Brilliantly outrageous computer components.
• Locale codes
• The Easter Egg Archive - Computers Check out the "Easter Eggs" hidden in software.
• Game Copy World Tools to copy game CDs onto your computer so that you're not prompted to insert the CD when you start the game.
• Sophos - Guidelines for Safer Computing
• BCS Home of the British Computer Society.
• Speech Accent Archive Examples of accents from around the world, with audio samples and ipa translation.
• Neohapsis Network and security consultants. Have a good archive that answer a variety of network-related questions.
• OverClockers Get the most out of your computer (but risk meltdown).
• TheoryGroup I was interested in the article Rootkits - How Intruders Hide.
• Paj's Home One of the best (most useful) personal sites I've seen. Very well written and contains some great info and code, particularly on cryptography.
• Eicar Anti-virus test file.
• High-Tech Dictionary Search for computer terminology. Also has a comprehensive list of Emoticons, File Types, Chat Terms and Domain Suffixes.
• Computer Dictionary
• informIT articles Articles on all areas of computing.
• nullpointer Gaming projects.
• cmsInfo.org "Internet community of users and developers of Content Management Systems", with news and info.
• Emoticons A comprehensive list of emoticon text.
• European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research Their objectives are to unite efforts against writing and proliferation of malicious code and against computer crime. You can download a test file for anti-virus software.
• Symantec Security Response Latest virus info from Symantec. This is my favourite resource for virus info and removal.
• F-Prot's Virus Information Latest virus info from F-Prot.
• Concurrent Versions System "Supporting the community around CVS".
• A Quick and Dirty Guide to CVS
• MadProf's Workshop MadProf's personal site. Has a consise description of programming languages and some cool themes for WindowMaker.
• Tech Support Guy forums I found good advice on the Prolivation virus here.
• Spot On Computers An online computer shop with great prices.
• Computer Books, Tutorials and Lecture Notes On a variety of computer topics.
• File format extensions A comprehensive list organised by extension.
• Wotsit's Format File formats organised by type, with a spec file for each. Comprehensive information on each type but a less comprehensive list.
• dabs.com Retailer of IT and technology products.
• scan.com Another tech retailer.
• Google Watch "A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms, and privacy policies are undermining the web". It's still my favourite search engine though!
• mail2web Check any mailbox online. No need to register. Haven't tried it yet - I'm always sc
• Manchester Digital A site for the digital business sector in Manchester. It has a nice directory of companies.
• Phorum An OpenSource web based discussion app. Here for future reference.
• O'Reilly Network Developers' Hub. A collection of articles on computing. I found some nice articles such as Speeding up Linux Using hdparm and Understanding Rootkits.
• Privacy.net In a world of increasing information flow, see how much can be found out about you when visiting a site.
• What Is? Introductions to a huge number of computer technologies and links to further information.
• Tutorial Find Search for tutorials.
• Tucows My software library of choice. Good for programs for various operating systems (Linux, Mac, Windows, OS2, BeOS...).
• Download.com A huge software library, but with focus on Windows.
• GNU home GNU is Not Unix.
• Yahoo computers Search for any computer related sites. Found a nice list of AI companies there.
• UMCS Software Links University of Manchester (Computer Science) software links.
• AIG Home of the Advanced Interfaces Group at Manchester uni. - VR stuff.
• Bio Motion Lab ...from the psychology dept in Ruhr University (Bochum). As a nice example see this articulated figure motion. Click "lines" for a better impression of the figure.
• VRepar Virtual Reality Environments in Psycho-neuro-physiological Assessment and Rehabilitation. Basically, VR in medicine and psychology.
• HMS Center for Human Modeling and Simulation at the uni. of Pennsylvania. Some of the top names in the field are based here.
• CV Online On-line compendium of computer vision.
• Zoom This is primarily a fasion portal, but they offer free web space with no ads and email (but check the conditions). My site was hosted on their servers (at pages.zoom.co.uk/stephandale/).
• Brinkster A good web-hosting service. Provides free ASP and MS Access support.
• Digital FAQ DVD information site.
• CDRLabs.com CD Writer news, reviews, etc...
• CD-RW Central CD Writer news, reviews, etc...
• Radified Info. for the digital age. Found a useful guide to ASPI here.
• CygWin Windows port of XFree86. Also see XFree86.org.
• BibNet Bibliography archive in BibTeX format.
• postscript Resources for Postscript (and Ghostscript).
• The Stairway To Hell BBC Micro and Electron site. I may use it in the future when I'm bored enough to install an emulator and re-live the good-ole-days.
• Phil Storr's PC Hardware Book Serves as a nice intro. to PC hardware. I wanted it for the section How does EIDE work ?.
• The Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA FAQ Lots of info. about hard disks (the section How does EIDE work ? in Phil Storr's PC Hardware Book is suspiciously similar. Who stole what from whom I've no idea).
• The Complete Guide on DMA, UDMA An intro. to the differences between DMA and UDMA.
• The Hardware Book A collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions. Haven't used yet, but I hope it'll come in handy in the future.
• WebAttack.com Freeware & shareware. I found good freeware file recovery tools for NTFS, as well as sharware ones.

Programming | Go to top

• My computing notes
• JavaRanch Has useful forums on Java programming.

• Look, no Javascript, ma! A hover effect without using Javascript. How has this been done? See comments page - view the file headers and you'll see one called "Link" which is referencing the nocode.css file... Link: ; REL='stylesheet'; MEDIA='screen' http://cow.neondragon.net/stuff/nocode.css
• XSLT Reference
• The Hello World Collection 190 Hello World programs in different languages.
• Koders Source code search engine.
• JSPWiki: My Coding Standard A good set of coding standards, most of which I agree with.
• 0. Introductions and Expectations The zeroth chapter in a series on how to write an operating system.
• Handy MySQL Commands Tabulated.
• 99 Bottles of Beer A single program written in 621 different languages.
• Computer Languages History A nice map of computer languages from 1954 to date.
• Blackdown Home of the Java for Linux.
• The awk programming language Usefull awk resources from Eric Pement.
• sed . . . the stream editor Usefull sed resources from Eric Pement.
• Whitespace A programming language that uses white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) as syntax.
• xml.apache.org The Apache XML Project home page. They provide various tools, such as the xerces XML parser and the xalan XSL parser.
• MSDN library
• COM (Component Object Model) From Micro$oft.
• HTML and DHTML Reference From Micro$oft.
• Dynamic HTML Editing Component SDK From Micro$oft.
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code ;-)
• Introduction to the Java Standard Tag Library
• Object Oriented Software Engineering Knowledge Base
• Apache Week. Dynamic Page Languages Comparison of programming languages used to create dynamic web pages.
• DevShed Open Source web development site. Has good articles on server-side and client-side programming.
• Syntax Across Languages Tabulated comparisons of syntax in different programming languages.
• Webmonkey A good web programming resource with articles for beginners to masters. See the Programming section.
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocesssor PHP resources, including a good manual (with this handy function list).
• Design Patterns in Java Reference and example site. Has extensive example code and UML diagrams.
• Thinking in Patterns with Java Free book to download. Describes a large selection of patterns but doesn't have any UML diagrams. Also see Bruce Eckel's Free Electronic Books for other programming books free for download.
• The Design Patterns Java Companion Downloadable PDF descriptions of design patterns, illustrated with real world examples. Does have diagrams, but little UML damn it!.
• The JSP Resource Index Tutorials, code, etc etc.
• Automating GUI programs with java.awt.Robot With example code.
• Encyclopedia of Stupid Languages Here's a brilliant example of a factorising program written in a language called BrainFork.
• JavaScript MD5 A great JavaScript utility that implements the MD4/5 and SHA-1 hash functions.
• Tera TextEditor A lovely little text editor with syntax highlighting for a number of file formats.
• Programmers' Heaven Programming resources.
• Roll Your Own Intranet Tutorial on all of the various network protocols.
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming On Linux in C.
• Java BluePrints Guidelines, Patterns, and code for end-to-end Java applications.
• JavaDesktop Gathering place for Java GUI programmers.
• GameDev.net Game development resources.
• Game Development Search Engine Search lots of game devel sites at once.
• Amit's Game Programming Information Some useful info on how to begin writing games.
• Basic Course in Special Effects and Game Programming in Java How to write a game Applet.
• JSurfer Java news, resources, forums etc.
• Database Table Corruption (How to recognize, repair, and prevent)
• Java Home of Java. Downloads, reference material and everything else. Also see their Java tutorial, JavaServer Pages(TM) Technology and their forums.
• Java & Internet Glossary Has a useful guide to calculating leap years.
• Building a JAR file
• Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Reference Guide
• Maximum Server Security An article on server security.
• Tek-Tips "Forums for computer prfessionals".
• jGuru Articles and forums for Java programmers.
• PreciseJava.com Java programming site with guides such as Best practices to improve performance in JSP.
• Programming Tutorials
• Guru's Network A collection of self-hailed programming gurus. Lots of programming tutorials.
• OpenGL Home of the OpenGL graphics library. Also see the GLUT documentation.
• Nate Robins He ported the GL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) to Windows. His site also hosts other OpenGL stuff.
• MESA Home of the MESA 3D graphics library - a free OpenGL clone.
• C reference guide
• C tutorial
• UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C A very good, extensive tutorial.
• C/C++ Reference
• C++ tutorial
• C++ in Hypertext Another C++ tutorial in case you couldn't find what you're looking for in the other one.
• C++ Rules and Recommendations
• MSDN Micro$oft Developers Network. Useful resourse for anyone developing for Windows. It has a good library.
• The Component Object Model: A Technical Overview From the MSDN.
• Tables of Common Character Sets
• ASCII Character Set A useful table of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character set.
• Modules, Separate Compilation, Using Make Files A useful guide to modularising a program (and how to overcome the problems it presents, such as that of multiple inclusion).
• SQL tutorial From W3 Schools.
• Starting and stopping MySQL automatically on RedHat Linux
• Making SQL Queries with JDBC and Displaying Results with Swing
• Regular Expressions in Java How to use regular expressions in Java. If you don't know much read the Quick Start.

Linux | Go to top

• My Linux notes
• RapidSVN A GUI Subversion client.
• Linux Commands A table of useful Linux commands. The emphasis is on operations you'd need to perform rather than individual commands, so there are lots of composite command sequences, amalgamated using pipes.
• SystemRescueCD In their own words, "SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash". I've used it (mainly for QtParted) and I recommend it. You can put it on a USB stick too.

• Running Windows applications on Linux using Wine This particular page is for how to install IE6.
• rc.d init.d Basic notes on the differences between the BSD-style and SystemV startup methods, from a sys admin's blog called SysAdmin1138.
• MyGnokii - Gammu+ family Applications, scripts and drivers used for managing all possible functions in cellular phones and similiar devices. See Gammu and Wammu. With any luck I can use instead of the Windows-only Nokia PC suite.
• Linux.com Linux information, news, tips, and reference material. Part of the Open Source Technology Group.
• Linux on an Acer Travelmate 8104WLMi - Part I Using the Gentoo distribution.
• IP Masquerading with Linux
• Linux IP Masquerade HOWTO
• How do I boot to runlevel3 from GRUB ?
• The DMA Issue in RedHat Linux 7.x How to fix problems with Red Hat's default enabling of DMA.
• enabling IDE DMA Using the idex=dma boot prompt argument or hdparm.
• Setting up a Local Area Network Using Red Hat Linux to connect two or more computers.
• Linux kernel driver for SpeedTouch USB modems For kernel version 2.4.16 or better.
• Internet Routing How to configure routing on Linux.
• Iptables Basics Introductory iptables tutorial.
• Detecting server compromising
• wayV Open Source gesture recognition program.
• Blackdown Home of the Java for Linux.
• xinetd.org Home of xinetd, the network services daemon.
• tomsrtbt Mini-distribution that fits on a floppy. "The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk." It includes the gpart utility which is very useful if you've screwed up your partition table. However, after writing the image to a floppy it would not boot. Hopefully you'll have better luck.
• Tips for Linux - How to use the most popular command in Unix - Grep Grep tutorial.
• gabeanderson.com: life: Unix/Linux Find & Replace in Multiple Files Find and replace text in multiple files with a shell script that uses sed.
• How to find and replace a string in multiple files Using perl.
• Setting Up secure web server using Apache and OpenSSL
• .htaccess Tutorial
• Linux home
• LDP Linux Documentation Project home. If you want to find out something about Linux, go here first.
• The Linux keyboard and console HOWTO
• die.net Useful Linux stuff, such as nicely formatted Linux man pages and a nice dictionary that returns all definitions of a word including computing terminology.
• Linux MAN Pages Linux manual pages with search.
• Linux HQ Useful site with lots of kernel info.
• Mail Archive An archive of mailing lists.
• Slashdot Linux news, info, and everything.
• SourceForge A large open source development website.
• Freshmeat An index of Unix and cross-platform software.
• Freezer-Burn Linux info. - news, articles, documentation, etc.
• Linux Format Magazine home site.
• Linux Headquarters Linux info, including Network Configuration Using the Command Line
• The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use Very useful reference. Has a section on Finding Files.
• Frankenlinux Useful site with odd guides to Linux. It has a good introduction to mount and fstab.
• Linux FAQ This FAQ has a very good description of how octal umasks correspond to file permissions - useful for use with fstab. Also see fstab and octal umasks.
• The Apache Software Foundation Home of the Apache projects, including their popular HTTP server. Also see the The Jakarta Site - Apache Tomcat.
• Apache Security Tips
• Mod_SSL (v2.7) User Manual Including this FAQ: How can I get rid of the pass-phrase dialog at Apache startup time?.
• OpenCMS An open source Content Management System.
• RPM home Home of the Redhat Package Management tool.
• Rpmfind RPM package finder. Also see their list of essential Linux RPMs.
• Choosing a distribution Gives a nice summary of some of the major distribution's goals.
• Comparison of Distributions Up-to-date summary of the contents of most well(ish) known distributions.
• Linux Mandrake Home of the Linux Mandrake distribution. Packages for the Linux Mandrake distribution.
• Mandrake User Info. and troubleshooting help for Mandrake users.
• RedHat Home of the RedHat distribution. Version 8.0 manual, Version 9.0 manual.
• Red Hat Linux 9. Additional Boot Options
• The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide For v8.0. This article on Configuring the Boot Loader is useful.
• XMMS RPMs for RedHat 8 and 9 Red Hat shipped without support for mpeg audio due to concerns about patents. These RPMs include the mpeg audio input plugin.
• Linux From Scratch How to set up your own Linux distribution.
• Gnome Home of the Gnome desktop environment.
• FootNotes Gnome desktop news.
• KDE Home of the KDE desktop environment.
• (Linux Magazine) Window Manager Roundup A basic roundup of the most popular window managers - AfterStep, BlackBox, Enlightenment, FVWM2, IceWM, Sawfish and Window Maker.
• WindowMaker Home of the WindowMaker window manager. Also see the files that Largo has found useful.
• GWorkspace A file manager and workspace tool for WindowMaker .
• dockapps.org Lots of dock(able) applications for WindowMaker, AfterStep, etc.
• Dock App Warehouse Another site for dockapps.
• Enlightenment Home of the Enlightenment window manager.
• (Freshmeat) Themes Lots of themes for every possible linux desktop environment or window manager.
• RXVT Home of RXVT, a lightweight virtual terminal. When installing, some useful options include --enable-xpm-background --enable-next-scroll --with-x --with-xpm.
• Bash Reference Manual Bourne Again SHell reference guide.
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide Has a useful section on Complex Commands.
• BASh String Manipulations
• Introduction to Shell Scripting
• Introduction to bash shell scripting
• C++ program development in the Linux environment at the department A simple intro. to using g++, make and gdb.
• GDB: The GNU Project Debugger Home of GDB, with dowloads, documentation etc..
• Linux AI A Linux Artificial Intelligence/Life how-to.
• GIMP The Graphical Image Manipulation Project, an essential program for designing images.
• GIMP Tutorials
• Tig3rt Labs Tutorials and resources for Gimp and Gnome. Also has a some nice wallpaper images.
• GIMP tutorials
• XFree86 The popular linux display manager.
• Linux games Yes, they do exist.
• linux printing First port of call if you have problems printing under Linux.
• Printing in Linux - CUPS
• CUPS Client-Error-Forbidden This is the only site I could find that addressed this error.
• GNUPlot manual
• WvDial Home of WvDial, the ppp dialer.
• Linux (1.2.3) Boot Sequence An in-depth explanation of the linux boot sequence (albeit with an old kernel).
• Speeding up Linux Using hdparm. Brought to you by the O'Reilly Network Developers' Hub
• Starting and stopping MySQL automatically on RedHat Linux
• SMB HOWTO: Accessing an SMB Share With Linux Machines
• Backup and Restore Procedures
• TechDirectory: UNIX Data backup Backup procedures and scripts using cpio, tar, dump and restore.
• Tar and Taper for Linux
• How to Make Backups with a Local Tape Drive
• Vi/Vim Editor List of commands.
• vi Manual
• Webmin An extremely useful open source systems administration program.
• Only root can write to mounted a DOS drive Good description of how octal umasks correspond to file permissions - useful for use with fstab.
• NEdit.org Home to my favourite editor. It has lots of different syntax highlighting and usefull macros too.
• Expect A nice program that automates terminal programs that normally require user input. A usefull sister program is autoexpect, which records your input and creates a script for expect.
• XV Home of XV, a nice image viewer (with basic editing facilities) that's good for image previews and taking screenshots.
• Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands.
• EveryBuddy Home of the EveryBuddy multi-protocol messenging client.
• GAIM Home of the GAIM multi-protocol messenging client.
• UNIX quick reference guide.
• Corey's GTK Theme Installation Guide
• gts Simple GTK theme switch.
• Nautilus Themes New Nautilus themes, that will be complimented with window manager and GTK themes.
• Apotheke A CVS view for Nautilus.
• MPlayer A multi-format movie player for Linux.
• html2ps Home of a useful utility that converts HTML to PostScript.
• Mozilla Plugin Support on Linux List of programs that can be "plugged" into Mozilla to provide support for a variety of file formats.
• RPM chicken or egg problem How to install RPM v4 using RPM v3.
• Finding Stuff A guide to the find command.
• UNIX security software FTP directory.
• RAID & Swap Advice about the use of RAID with swap space.
• Weird glibc upgrade problem An email explaining how to fix a glibc upgrade problem that can cause havoc if carried out carelessly.
• ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Audio functionality for Linux. I don't currently use this but I may do in the future it provides the best MIDI support.
• Development for Multiple Linux Distributions mini-HOWTO This outlines a quick hack to aid in developing and testing user-space programs for multiple Linux distributions.
• Managing Multiple Operating Systems HOWTO How to install and manage multiple alternative operating systems.
• Hacking Linux Exposed How to hack Linux and how to stop it being hacked.
• Linux Command Quick Reference
• Linux, Clocks, and Time How to set the system and hardware clocks.
• convert-favourites A Perl script to convert IE favourites format to various others (Netscape's HTML, XBEL, OPML).
• bk_edit A tool to manage, convert and edit bookmarks. It supports the formats used by Opera 6/7, Galeon 1.2.5 (XBEL), Mozilla 1.0/1.1/1.2/1.3/1.4, Netscape Navigator 6+/4/3, Links 2.1, Phoenix 0.5+ (Drag & Drop only) and Konqueror 3+ (Drag & Drop only).

Windows | Go to top

• My Windows notes

• Duplicate file finder Freeware.
• Ace FTP Freeware FTP program. If the link is dead have a look around their site to see if it's been moved.
• The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities Good choices - I use a number of these programs.
• The IP routing table For Windows Server 2003.
• How NSA access was built into Windows
• Microsoft "NSAKEY" security advisory
• Straight Talk on XP Activation from PC Magazine.
• Win XP Product Activation Decoded from The Register.
• Windows 95 & USB Support A table listing all of the versions of Windows 95 released, and their USB support.
• MSN Smileys Emoticons for MSN messenger - the icons and their associated text.
• NScan Port scanner for Windows. They also provide what seems a very useful business card CD kit containing a variety of useful admin tools that will fit on a business card sized CD.
• WinT's Windows Modifications How to hack Windows applications. I generally like any site that makes Windows look (and act) better, not that I'll do any of it myself mind.
• Bookmark Converter A shareware tool that can convert, merge and synchronise bookmarks from all most browsers (IE, NS, Mozilla, etc). It nearly worked for me - I got an access violation when I tried to synchronise bookmarks, but if it had worked it would have been a very useful tool! I'll try it again some time.
• Actual Search and Replace Find and replace blocks of text in multiple files. Shareware.
• Micro$oft Knowledge Base
• DCOMbobulator Download a utility to disable Micro$oft's DCOM (because it is a security risk).
• Windows Crash.com Repository of amusing and not-so-amusing crashes of Microsoft Windows.
• Annoyances.org Solutions to Micro$oft Windows annoyances.
• Winfiles Good site for Windows shareware.
• Crash How to change the Windows "start" menu to "crash" menu (using emacs and playing around with binaries).
• Description and Availability of MSN Messenger Service To keep track of the Messenger service the changes in details such as port number, for use with messenger clients such as EveryBuddy or GAIM.
• File undelete and disk data recovery tool for NTFS volumes on Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows NT
• OpenSTA Open System Testing Architecture, for server performance testing. I've not tried it yet but I may in the future.

Internet and Network Computing | Go to top

• My computing notes
• Web Page Analyzer Free Website Performance Tool and Web Page Speed Analysis

• The Honeynet Project A non-profit organization dedicated to improving the security of the Internet by increasing awareness and researching cyber threats, mainly by gathering information on attacks made against a "honeynet".
• Well known IP ports, 0 through 999 Table of IP ports and the protocols that commonly run on them.
• mod_rewrite, session tracking & tomcat How to allow Tomcat to track sessions whilst removing /<webapp_name> from the URL using mod_rewrite.
• Penetration Testing: Re: IP forwarding Methods of determining whether systems on a network will forward IP traffic.
• Ins and Outs of DNS Nice introduction to DNS records.
• ADSL Guide They have a great facility to Compare Service Providers.
• Wiring Tutorial for 10BaseT Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Good diagrams for wiring normal network cable and crossover cable.
• Spam Poison Link to this site to foil spambots.
• Using and Deploying Web Applications with Servlets and JSP. 4.6 Sharing Data Among Web Applications.
• SpoofStick Browser extension that helps users detect spoofed (fake) websites.
• Database of Web Robots, Overview Alphabetical index of known web robots with associated details, mostly consisting of a short description and origin.
• Has MasterCard gone on a phishing trip, leaving the back door wide open? An article on the cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that so many web sites are succeptible to.
• text sizing - up the garden path 264 screenshots of text rendering in the different browsers.
• NScan Port scanner for Windows.
• Search Engine Positioning and Web Marketing weblog News and views about the major search engines.
• SpamArchive.org Community resource that provides a database of known spam to help the development of anti-spam tools.
• Irth Networks Free website hosting for non-profit sites. Based on Linux and provides nice features such as FTP, email, scripting (JSP etc). I've not tried them yet - the link's here for future reference.
• TouchGraph Generate a graph of a web site and it's links.
• DevShed Open Source web development site. Has good articles on server-side and client-side programming. However, they do have too many ads and too little content per page.
• CERT Computer Emergency Response Team. A centre of internet security expertise.
• Best Practices for Secure Web Development: Technical Details Advice on developing secure web apps, with links to other resources.
• Georgi Guninski Security Research Georgi is a researcher who uncovered numerous vulnerabilities, especially when it comes to client and cross-site scripting.
• BLACKCODE.COM Articles on network security.
• Nominet UK registry for .uk domain names.
• IP address index A comprehensive list of IPs and their owners.
• Webmonkey A very good web programming resource with articles for beginners to masters.
• Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
• HOWTO: Prevent Caching in Internet Explorer Article from Micro$oft knowledge base. However the suggestions didn't make the blindest bit of difference when I implemented them! Typical.
• Keeping Your Site Comfortably Secure: An Introduction to Internet Firewalls From the (US) National Institute of Standards and Technology.
• DNS Stuff Online network tools.
• Sam Spade.org More online network tools here. If you're unfamiliar with them there is also a page with descriptions.
• Web Developer's Virtual Library Lots of web development resources.
• Why you can't change the "Browse" button in a form to be an image.
• mail2web Check any mailbox online. No need to register.
• World Wide Web Consortium The definative site for anything internet. These people literally set the standards, such as those for Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 and XHTML 1.0. They run a Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and as well as a wealth of information they also provide useful validation services for HTML and CSS.
• W3 Schools Internet-related tutorials, but they have others such as this nice one on SQL.
• SQL Injection: Modes of Attack, Defence, and Why It Matters A good article on how to hack into sites with an SQL backend, simply by manipulating request paramters.
• HTTP/1.1: Status Code Definitions
• Internet.com Lots of links to various internet related resources.
• Web Developers Journal Guides and reviews. It has a bit on wacky HTML.
• Voodoo's Javascript intro. Good introduction to javascript (although he fails to mention it is case sensitive).
• The Javascript Source Lots of free javascript to do lots of things.
• The Ultimate JavaScript Client Sniffer This piece of code tests for all browser vendors, versions and operating systems.
• The Document Object Model in Mozilla
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor A site for PHP, with a good introductory tutorial and manual.
• Search Engine Watch Has articles about how search engines work and tips on how to get your page listed.
• Add your URL to Google
• Web Hosting List "The Definitive Web Host Buyer's Guide".
• 123-Reg. By far the best domain-name registration company I've found. Good service and cheap prices. I registered mindSpill.net with them.
• PageTutor A good basic web page design tutorial. Also, the ColorPicker II is very useful.
• Plugin test cases Links to web pages that allow you to see if you have various plugins installed (e.d. flash, quicktime etc..).
• Java Plug-in Code Samples and Apps Demo pages to test your JRE plugin.
• The HTML Coded Character Set
• About image buttons in HTML forms and multi-line texts in normal submit buttons A comprehensive description on the use of image buttons rather than the standard submit buttons in a form. Read this if you're having problems.

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• World Wide Web Consortium
• The Web Standards Project
• Cascading Style Sheets level 1 specification
• XHTML 1.0 specification
• (X)HTML validator
• CSS validator
• CSS Zen Garden See what range of designs can be achieved using style sheets.
• A List Apart An e-zine on web design. Has a lot on cross-compatibility and stylesheets.
• Eric Meyer: CSS The godfather of CSS. As well as his blog, the site contains resources such as the great css/edge, an exploration of CSS-based design.
• css-discuss An extensive Wiki on all aspects of CSS. Go here for pretty much anything to do with CSS.
• CSS crib sheet Very useful tips from Eric Meyer for debugging CSS.
• Position is Everything Modern browser bugs explained in detail.
• CSS Bugs in IE5.x Mac
• W3 Schools Internet-related tutorials, such as this XHTML Tutorial.
• Care With Font Size Recommended practice on the use of fonts by the W3C.
• Eric Meyer on CSS: Tricking Browsers and Hiding Styles Unfortunately this is still necessary until all browser vendors have been good enough to adopt the standards.
• Little Boxes Collection of CSS layouts.
• glish.com : CSS Layout Techniques Collection of CSS layouts.
• Essential Fonts For Designers Free Truetype fonts. This site has examples of hundreds of fonts (including the standard ones supported by most browsers), free to download by clicking the example text.

• Two and Three Classes CSS Test Test page for CSS class inheritance. The example shows how styling is applied, in relation to the order in which classes are referenced in the HTML and the order of their definitions in the CSS.
• Skyzyx.com - Downloads Old versions of Internet Explorer for Windows XP.
• CSS Browser Bugs and Problems
• CSS Styled Lists Tutorial Actually not so much a tutorial as a page containing examples of different list styling.
• Bullet-Proof Rounded Corners A brilliant CSS technique for producing rounded corners with borders in your divs.
• Creative Commons A non-profit organisation who provide a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. Everything is clearly explained and they've a good interface to put together your copyright doc.
• sofake Great little interface. Just start clicking things.
• Open Source Web Design A community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.
• Simple 2 column CSS layout Nice step-by-step guide, with examples of how the layout evolves.
• Two columns with color A 2 column layout with header and footer.
• Mozie Free Windows application to compare the page rendering in Mozilla and Internet Explorer simultaneously.
• Colour matching or replacing How to replace a colour with the same shade of another colour.
• Yam's Playground Someone's site. Brilliant flash interface and design.
• Clagnut Some guy's personal site. It's interesting, well designed and has some good links to web design resources.
• Hands-On Photoshop tutorials.
• phong [tutorials] Photoshop tutorials.
• Index DOT Html and Index DOT Css Great resource for HTML and CSS element trees and browser compatibility lists.
• the5k.org : home page Web design competition.
• XML tutorial From W3 Schools.
• studio id | CSS Templates Three ways of creating a CSS layout that has a header, 3 column body and footer.
• Simple Bits Home of web designer Dan Cederholm. Has some good CSS tips.
• Pulsating Brain: 3-Column CSS layouts that work in Netscape 4 A collection of 3-column CSS layouts.
• Ordinary-Life.net :: Web Design: Coding: CSS :: CSS resources from Ordinary-Life.net. They've also got other useful links to resources for areas such as usability and standards.
• CSS Destroy CSS experimemts that create cool effect but are certainly not cross-browser compatible.
• Font comparison Examples of text in the common fonts.
• Fast rollovers, no preload needed A clever technique whereby only a single image is used, its position displaced on the rollover to provide the change.
• Center a table with CSS :: Scott Granneman
• Image Replacement - No Span Works by moving the text outside of the header's dimensions. Identical technique to A new image replacement technique by Stuart Langridge.
• A new image replacement technique Works by moving the text outside of the header's dimensions. Identical technique to Image Replacement - No Span by Seamus P. H. Leahy.
• Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) Works by adding a <span> to the HTML markup so that the text within it can be hidden.
• ColorMixers Useful online tool for generating colour schemes.
• Colours on the web - colour theory and colour matching Brilliant description of how colours work and how they can be used on the web.
• The web-safe color dilemma A nice description of so-called "web safe" (or "browser safe") colours.
• Browser Cam Creates screen captures of your web pages loaded in any browser and on any operating system. Great for testing page compatibility.
• HotScripts.com PHP, CGI, Perl, JavaScript and ASP script collection and resource.
• CSS quick reference
• Validator Tools A range of validators for CSS (single page or whole site), CSS design combinations that could cause problems, links, HTML and accessibility.
• Surface Yugop.com Some nice Flash interface designs and various other wierd toys.
• GFXartist.com News, articles and forums for the digital art community.
• Css Beauty Showcase of designers' work.
• mezzoblue "A semi-daily expository and exploratory on all things web, design, and typographic". As well as some great articles and links there's this useful crib sheet - a quick reference to check when you come across CSS layout issues.
• Beautify Free templates.
• Webmaster Know How Introductory information about building a web site.
• Network Communication Design Has some good HTML and CSS guides, including this HTML tag list.
• Xiph.org Foundation "...a non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests".
• World Wide Web Consortium The definative site for anything internet. These people literally set the standards, such as those for Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 and XHTML 1.0. They run a Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and as well as a wealth of information they also provide useful validation services for HTML and CSS.
• Viewable with Any Browser A campaign for a platform independent, non-browser specific World Wide Web.
• Web Design Group Material on a wide range of HTML related topics. Not much on graphics. Has a good CSS reference.
• Killer Sites Has some nice example sites.
• WebTemplates Has usefull templates for determining how a web page will look, such as this Web-Safe Color Picker.
• 4096 Color Wheel Great colour wheel that shows you the web-safe, web-smart (whatever that is!) and unsafe HEX values..
• THE JOY OF HEX Web-safe colour picker. Good to see how a colour looks as a background.
• Html forms tutorial A single page containing examples of all the form elements along with simple descriptions.
• flash Reference material for Macromedia Flash.
• Icehouse Designs Web design tutorials, etc.
• Web Page Design For Designers A very nice site for advice on design. Has a good section on jpeg and gif file formats.
• Photoshop tips Lots of useful little photoshop tips (amongst others).
• Making Text Legible - Designing for People with Partial Sight
• T-Menu A nice JavaScript drop-down menu from Charles Foster.

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• My computing notes

• Caedes Desktop Backgrounds Good quality free desktop backgrounds.
• All Emoticons A collection of emoticons. I've always wanted this one!
• stock.xchng Free stock photography.
• Image * After Images and textures free for commercial or personal use.
• Morgue File Free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
• Weird Clip Art A collection of odd clip art, much of it rubbish but there are some gems.
• FindSounds Sound search engine.
• The Free Graphics Store Free graphics for web pages.
• Solar Voyager Space art. They have a good wallpaper section with brilliant pictures of the solar system.
• Worth 1000 Advanced Photoshop contests and galleries. Check out the Detouching comp.
• Also see the MP3 links.
• Ogg Vorbis Open Source audio encoding and streaming technology, similar to MP3.
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) An audio compression format which does not reduce quality on compression.
• Digital Blasphemy Lots of good pictures, wallpaper images, etc.
• Computer Wallpaper Really impressive backgrounds. I personally like the abstracts.
• Anime Wallpapers Great images. Loads of pop-ups though.
• Peorth - Anime Wallpapers by Andrea
• Animation Factory Lots of really good gif animations, graphics and stuff.
• FlamingText Images useful for a web page. Background textures, buttons, etc.

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